Clonmel Thu, 7th Sep, 2023  Extensio I’ve hit on a good horse. Up to the Curragh run, where the draw beat him, obviously, we always said we had a nice horse, but after that day we came home saying we have a good horse — and we have a good horse now. This has been a lucky horse to start with. You almost don’t want to believe you have your hands on a good horse because it’s so rare we get on them, but I think we have a good one here. Before he won in Roscommon, he was meant to go to Haydock with a view to the English Cesarewitch, but the ground turned up soft and we had to cancel that. Where I might go with him is to the Cesarewitch Trial in Newmarket. Needless to say, several jockeys’ agents were on the phone to me, but Joey Sheridan has been helping me all spring — I’ve been meeting him once a week — so I certainly wasn’t going to (go elsewhere). It was just a misfortune he couldn’t ride him earlier in the season, as he was injured. But I’m delighted to give Joey a winner. It was a nice team effort.

Roscommon Tue, 8th Aug, 2023  Extensio I'm delighted. He has the form in the book. If he was a bigger horse he'd probably start favourite, in our head. He's tall at the withers but a slight horse, so hulking 12 stone around in a hurdle was a worry. That's why I took the 7lb off, but I knew I had a nice lad taking it off. Patrick has been riding out with me most days once Aidan (O'Brien) has finished with him, he's in Ballydoyle most mornings and he's just finished his degree. It's a big thing for me to win that race with a horse first time out over hurdles.